Insecticide



UNITED STATES PAT NT FFICEO WILLIAM A. FRENCH, OF- SENATOBIA,MISSISSIPPI.

INSECTICIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,733, datedSeptember 27, 1887.

Application filed June 11, 1887. Serial No. 241,061. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. FRENCH, of Senatobia, in the county ofTate and State of Mississippi, have invented a new Improvement inInsecticides, of which the following is a specification. Y

My invention is a medical compound for exterminating gnats, flies, andother insects, to be used upon live stock. The compound protects thestock by killing and keeping the insects away, and will cure the poisonfrom the bites and prevent them from biting again.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in theproportions stated, viz: To make one gallon, take best leaf-lard, twopounds; coal-oil, (150 fire-test,) five and one-half pints; powderedcorrosive sublimate, two and one-half drams; alcohol, (ninety-five percent.,) two fluid drams; powdered cobalt, four drams; refined benzine,four fluid drams; powdered sulphur, three ounces; oil of pennyroyal, onedram.

First place the lard in a vessel large enough to hold over one gallon;next add one and one-half pints coal-oil and stir cold until the lard isWell thinned; next put in three ounces of powdered sulphur and two pintsof coal-oil, stirring until well mixed; next put in two and one-halfdrams of powdered corrosive sublimate wet with two fluid drams ofalcohol;

next put infour drams powdered cobalt well wet with four fluid drams ofrefined benzine; next put in one dram of oil of pennyroyal; lastly putin two pints more of coal-oil, stirring long and well until all lard iswell dis- 35 solved and until all other material is held in solution andsuspension.

It may be warmed up to an oil and applied to bedsteads to exterminatethe chinch or bed bug, and when bedsteads or other furniture" arepainted or well greased with the mixture all bugs will disappear untilthe medicine is entirely worn away, which requires a long time.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- Theherein-described composition of matter to be used for exterminatinggnats, flies, or

